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Delayed and forgone care for families with chronic conditions in high-deductible health plansAlison A Galbraith
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 27:1105-11. 2012..Individuals with chronic conditions are at particular risk for increased out-of-pocket costs in HDHPs and resulting cost-related underuse of essential health care...
Use of well-child visits in high-deductible health plansAlison A Galbraith
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Fl, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Am J Manag Care 16:833-40. 2010..To examine how enrollment in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) affects use of well-child visits relative to traditional plans, when preventive care is exempt from the deductible...
Nearly half of families in high-deductible health plans whose members have chronic conditions face substantial financial burdenAlison A Galbraith
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 30:322-31. 2011..As health reform efforts advance, policy makers must consider how to modify high-deductible plans to reduce the financial burden for families with chronic conditions...- High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled?Alison A Galbraith
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th floor Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 123:e589-94. 2009..The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics of families who have children and switch to high-deductible health plans with those who stay in traditional plans... - Medicaid acceptance and availability of timely follow-up for newborns with MedicaidAlison A Galbraith
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Pediatrics 116:1148-54. 2005.... - Asthma care quality for children with minority-serving providersAlison A Galbraith
Center for Child Health Care Studies, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:38-45. 2010..To compare asthma care quality for children with and without minority-serving providers... - Cancer screening before and after switching to a high-deductible health planJ Frank Wharam
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Ann Intern Med 148:647-55. 2008..Health plans with high deductibles could lead patients to avoid preventive care, such as cancer screening... - Emergency department use and subsequent hospitalizations among members of a high-deductible health planJ Frank Wharam
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Mass 02215, USA
JAMA 297:1093-102. 2007..High-deductible health plans have been promoted as a means of reducing overutilization but could also be related to worse outcomes if patients defer necessary care... - Reliability of a patient survey assessing cost-related changes in health care use among high deductible health plan enrolleesRobert B Penfold
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 11:133. 2011..Despite the widespread use of survey questions to measure changes in health care use and related behaviors, scant data exists on the reliability of such questions... - Out-of-pocket financial burden for low-income families with children: socioeconomic disparities and effects of insuranceAlison A Galbraith
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Health Serv Res 40:1722-36. 2005..For low-income families, full-year public coverage provides significantly greater protection from financial burden than full-year private coverage... - Consumer awareness and strategies among families with high-deductible health plansTracy A Lieu
Center for Child Health Care Studies, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 25:249-54. 2010.... - Periodic use of inhaled steroids in children with mild persistent asthma: what are pediatricians recommending?Gregory S Sawicki
Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 47:446-51. 2008..2-0.6) for mild persistent asthma. Further research is needed on the effectiveness of periodic ICS use for children with mild persistent asthma and on underlying reasons for differing provider practice patterns... - Emergency department use and perceived delay in accessing illness care among children with MedicaidAlison A Galbraith
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Ambul Pediatr 4:509-13. 2004..Children covered by Medicaid are at increased risk of emergency department (ED) utilization.Objective.-To examine whether an association exists between ED use and perceived delay in accessing acute care... - Adolescent health care expenditures: a descriptive profilePaul W Newacheck
Institute for Health Policy Studies and Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, Suite 265, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA
J Adolesc Health 32:3-11. 2003..To examine health care spending patterns for U.S. adolescents aged 10 to 18 years using nationally representative household survey data...